Aimé Mignot

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Aimé Mignot (born December 3, 1932 in Aix-en-Provence ) is a former French football player and coach . He has spent most of his career in both functions at Olympique Lyon , which is why he is considered "the most loyal of the loyal" of this club. In addition, Mignot was the coach of the French women's national team for ten years .

Player career

Aimé Mignot emerged from the youth of AS Aix ; for this club he played from 1953 to 1955 in the second division . During the 1955/56 season he moved to the first division Olympique Lyon. In the eleven seasons of the left defender there , Lyon almost consistently had a typical midfield team, which was even ranked 15th in four years. or -16. narrowly escaped descent (1959/60 to 1961/62 and 1965/66). Only in the three intervening seasons from 1962 to 1965 did she manage to intervene in the fight for the championship title ; In the end, however, there was at best a fourth place in the table.

In the national cup for the Coupe de France, however, Mignot and his teammates reached the final twice in succession during these prime years. In 1963, Lyon forced AS Monaco after a 0-0 after extra time into a replay, in which the Monegasque then got the upper hand with 2-0. Twelve months later , Olympique Lyon were back on the pitch at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir , and after 90 minutes of the final against Girondins Bordeaux (2-0 win), team captain Aimé Mignot was presented with the trophy. A number of players who harmonized well as a team contributed to these three successful years under coach Lucien Jasseron : in addition to Mignot, they were in particular goalkeeper Marcel Aubour , the defenders Thadée Polak and Jean Djorkaeff and the offensive forces Victor Nurenberg , Fleury Di Nallo and Nestor Combin and Kurt Linder .

Mignot has also played a lot on the international stage, although he was never called up to the senior national team. In the Messestädte Cup three times ( 1958 against Inter Milan , 1960 against Cologne city ​​selection and 1961 against Sheffield Wednesday ), however, the end for Lyon was already in the first round. In the 1963/64 European Cup Winners' Cup , on the other hand - in which Lyon took part because Monaco had also become French champions and was playing for the national championship cup , which was regarded as "higher quality" - the French even achieved that after successes over B 1913 Odense , Olympiacos Piraeus and Hamburger SV Semifinals. Sporting Lisbon prevailed after 0: 0 and 1: 1 in the then still required decider with 1: 0 against Olympique.
The following year, however , Mignots Lyonnais failed again (against FC Porto ) in the first round.

After 361 first division games (no hit) and 17 European Cup matches (one hit), Aimé Mignot ended his playing career in 1966 and began training as a coach.

Coaching career

From 1966 Aimé Mignot coached the reserve and from 1968, as the successor to Louis Hon, the league team of Olympique Lyonnais, and as during his time as a player, the team shuttled between the upper and lower mid-table. Only in 1974 and 1975 she finished the season as third in Division 1 ; in the French Cup, however, she even reached three finals under coach Mignot. In 1971 she was defeated by the Stade Rennais UC , in whose ranks two ex-Lyons, Marcel Aubour and André Guy, were key figures in the game, and in 1976 against Olympique Marseille , although Mignot had been replaced shortly before by Aimé Jacquet . In 1973, however, OL won the final against FC Nantes and Mignot so the cup in his new role. The winning team also included Fleury Di Nallo, a long-time teammate of the coach, and Serge Chiesa, one of the most talented midfielders in France of those years, whom Mignot had shaped athletically since he was 19.

Aimé Mignot also played a total of 14 European Cup games as a trainer, but Lyon - as in the 1974/75 UEFA Cup against Borussia Mönchengladbach  - was eliminated in the second round at the latest. In 1976, after more than two decades, he left the city on the Rhone and hired Lyons league rivals SCO Angers , with whom he was relegated in 1977 and rose again in 1978. But although the SCO was then able to stay in the top division, the coach moved to Olympique Alès in Division 2 in 1979 . With Alès he rose at the end of the first season in the third division, where he continued to work for a year before he closed the chapter club coach. He then coached regional and national national teams of the Fédération Française de Football for some time , before the association promoted him in 1987 to succeed Francis Coché as head coach of the French women's national team. It was not until 1997 that the Bleues, under their coach, managed to qualify again for the finals of a European Championship after 1984 ; there, however, they just failed to reach the semi-finals. However, France missed participation in a World Cup finals in both 1991 and 1995 . After the European Championship in 1997, Aimé Mignot was replaced by Elisabeth Loisel . At the beginning of the 21st century, the Association of Former National Players appointed him their honorary president.

His coaching credo was to practice a "sophisticated teamwork" with the players, which was "not based solely on a concrete defense and hoping for a miracle in the storm". In 1974 he had achieved the best league placement in Olympique's club history. And when, in the summer of 2007, five journalists who had followed OL's career for decades put together their “team of the best of all time” (“équipe type”) , Aimé Mignot was in the left defensive position.

Palmarès

  • French cup winner
    • as a player: 1964 (and finalist 1963)
    • as trainer: 1973 (and finalist 1971)
  • Semi-finalist in the European Cup Winners' Cup: 1964 (as a player)
  • Participants in the European Women's Championship: 1997 (as a coach)

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ A b France Football: OL. Spécial - Clubs de légende, 2009, p. 24
  2. ^ After Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault, n.d.; according to France Football: OL. , P. 24, there were only 359 games.
  3. ^ A b L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X , p. 251
  4. ^ Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 135
  5. ↑ France Football, June 12, 2007, pp. 16-23
personal data
SURNAME Mignot, Aimé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-en-Provence